Joachimiten.

1797 Encycl. Brit. IX. 290/2 Joachimites, in church history, the disciples of Joachim, a Cistertian monk.

1842 K. H. Digby Mores Catholici xi. xiii. 478 The execrable book, entitled the eternal Gospel,..whose adherents, termed Joachimites, as it was ascribed to Joachim, were again condemned by the Council of Arles.

1929 E. C. Messenger tr. J. Guiraud Mediæval Inquisition v. 143 In 1247, a friar with Joachimist tendencies, John of Parma was elected minister general of the Order.

1913 E. G. Gardner Dante & Mystics vi. 192 The Joachists went considerably beyond what Joachim himself had taught.

1926 E. Hutton Franciscans in Eng. ix. 141 A sect of Joachists had arisen among the ‘spiritual’ party within the Franciscan Order.

1947 H. R. Williamson Arrow & Sword x. 158 The Joachists..had taken their master's ideas to their logical conclusion.

1947 H. R. Williamson Arrow & Sword x. 158 It is possible that the Divine Comedy..is the classic Joachist apologia.

1906 G. G. Coulton From St. Francis to Dante 108 A great orator and a great Joachite.

1913 A. G. F. Howell S. Bernardino of Siena i. 10 They cultivated the Joachite literature.

1931 H. Bett Joachim of Flora v. 112 These Joachites maintain that the future age of the Holy Spirit shall be enlightened with a more perfect law.

1932 Speculum 7 260 These works..beside throwing some lights on several problems of the Joachite tradition, were..useful in awakening more interest in the subject.

1874 J. H. Blunt Dict. Sects 242/1 As early as 1260 the Council of Arles spoke of the Joachitist error as spreading like a cancer.

1929 E. C. Messenger tr. J. Guiraud Mediæval Inquisition v. 143 Peter John Olivi..expounded a modified Joachimism which was henceforth the doctrine of the Spirituals.

1906 G. G. Coulton From St. Francis to Dante 104 The Pope.. insisted on his resignation, partly on account of his Joachism.

1913 A. G. F. Howell S. Bernardino of Siena i. 6 There is no trace of Joachism in S. Francis himself.

1932 Speculum 7 267 Grundmann's work is..epoch-making in the studies on Joachim and Joachism.